Slugs and Snails
Characterized by their shell and slow movement, snails are a common garden dweller and even a delicacy in some countries. Snails without shells are called slugs.
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Nitesh2010Apple Snail Diet Mostly they love algae. This is why they move up and down the sides of your tank-they are eating algae. Even if...
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There are two very basic kinds of snails. Some snails live on land and the second basic category of snail lives in water. Land ...
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AnswerSay that you have a normal garden snail named Tim. Tim is a hermaphrodite. This means that Tim is both male and female. All...
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A snail or a slug
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Next to impossible. I pull out as many as I can whenever I do a monthly cleaning of my tank. That, coupled with frequent gravel...
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No, slugs are generally found in moist, damp environments. Wild delphinium flowers grow in meadows and meadows are not a suitable...
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Snails are nocturnal, so it is probably climbing 3 feet a night and resting in the day,
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If the shell has slightly brown stripes on it then it is a girl, and if it has white stripes on it it is a boy.
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to live just the same as you
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Slugs are hermaphrodites. This means that every slug is both male and female.
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If your snails are on your fish then it is a sign they can't find any other food so they are most likely eating the algae off...
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I Would Say No, Because Those Little Tips On The Snail Are Its Eyes And They Can't Hear Because I've Yelled In My Mom's Garden So...
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Snails use their shell as the primary structure for their muscles to attache to. this provides a rudimentary skeletal support...
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take baby hospitle you dont know if slug got a dissess call lungworm which could slowly harm baby you not herd the story a true...
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there noses are basicly their feelers. the smell from them. they don't actually have noses though.
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smooth surface dark areas wet - damp areas & in a bush, forest, garden-just a place with heaps of plants to eat
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yes they can they can because the fish wont harm the snails anytime or day. the fish dont really notice the snails they just...
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Yes, some types of slugs DO eat ferns. There are several different types of land slugs, so the answer to the question of what do...
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Malacology Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacology
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Get a container with some holes punched in the roof (not too big or the snail might escape) and fill it 1/3 - 1/2 with soil or...
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Typically yes! It's a survival technique. Snails normally lay their eggs in the dark. To help encourage laying you can drape...
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Because the salt dries up the water and moisture from the snail. If the snail has no moisture in it then it will die. If you want...
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its because the salt it simple dries there body out till they die.
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Birds, beetles, ducks, chickens, and toads.
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Snails eat lots of vegetables like lettuce and are supposed to eat cuttle fish, this keeps their shell strong as they can be very...
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What I think is that slugs are almost the same as insects so I would say they belong to the insect family.
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Garden snails cannot swim. Despite needing water and liking it, they will drown when put in large quantities of water.
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this is because it is so low to the ground.
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snails are hermaphrodites, so they are both male and female either way you will have babies
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snails are both males and females because they have a female uterus and oviduct and ovaries and they also have male testis and...
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it is part of the mollusks family.
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No. The usual garden slugs eat vegetation. Leeches, on the other hand, do suck blood, and they look a lot like slugs.
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Potamopyrgus antipodarum
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Long antennae for enhanced sense's of smell and touch Lubricated (slimy) surface for extra mobility In emergency's the snail can...
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i dont know go find it for me! i dont know go find it for me!
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Inside the snails shell is it's heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, stomach etc. It's shell is like a storage for it's organs. The...
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Freshwater snails will certainly eat dead fish, as will a variety of marine snails. There are predatory snails called cone snails...
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Most snails can only crawl, even most of those that live in water can't swim. There are a few however that do swim, and some do...
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Hemiplecta rugata
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There are many like leaches, ticks and mosquitoes.
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cold blooded, because they are reptiles
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No, they will not. The dragon-fish can eat the ghost shrimp and the snail, and the crab will try to eat anything he can catch.
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they use calcium they get from food to make it
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Snails are Gastropods, which translates to "stomach-foot". They move by stretching their body and slide along a trail of mucous...
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Bilateral
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They may eat grapes but they mainly eat elgea and fish.
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i think it is bilateral body symmetry
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bivalves
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A freshwater snail is actually a type of freshwater mollusc (like clams and mussels that live in fresh water).
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The simple answer is - you can't ! They lack both the mental capacity to learn, and the memory retention to remember anything...
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slugs eat vegetables; lettuce leaves, carrots, and maybe other soft vegetables. That is why farmers hate slugs.
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how long do pond snails live
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Yes, true story,.....we have a dog and of course having three daughters they didn't want to go to the deck after dark to bring...
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I don't know about that, but you can put duct tape over a wart, soak it in warm water, and gently use pumas over it. Snail slime...
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We held an epic mud wrestling event for our mate's bucks night in march and used the mix from thepartyisoverhere.com. The mud was...
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epiphragm
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If you want to keep snails as pets then you will need: a sutible container a sprayer cuttle fish bone food soil bark/twigsIf your...
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A Conch it the common name for certain marine gastropod mollusks having a heavy, spiral shell, the whorls of which overlap each...
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When pouring salt on a slug, the water inside the cells leave via osmosis (excretion though the cell wall) because the salt level...
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Most snails are hermaphrodites. This means that they are both male and female. All hermaphroditic snails can lay eggs. They can...
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Garden snails eat a range of different food's love greenery like leaves of various plants. They eat cucumber, lettuce, spinach,...
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Slugs and snails are hermaphrodites with both male and female sexual organs. When they mate, each snail will fertilise the other,...
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hi there :)if your land snail is not eating try and get a heat mat it maybe because your snails are not warm enough. to put your...
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There are actually seven -CephalopodsBivalvesGastropodsPolyplac...
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Pomacea canaliculata is the scientific name of rice snail
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Mollusks eat all kinds of things. The cephalopods (octopii, squids, and their allies) are predators of fish and other marine...
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Yes, snails sleep, but it's hard to tell when they are sleeping. This is because the average snail moves at speeds of up to 0.1...
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I have a pet slug and I love it. All you have to do is get a fish tank or bowl. Then, you must put gravel on the bottom of the...
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http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Animals/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Gastropods/Land-and-Freshwater-Snails/Garden-Snail/Garden-Sna...
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If you really want to. It would need a water source (like a wet towel or some juicy vegetables) and food such as lettuce,...
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they have no feet. they slither --EDITED BY ANOTHER USER:In a way they don't have any feet, but in a way they actually do. One...
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if you found it in water its a water snailif you found it on land its a land snail
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The word snail is loosely used for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the adult...
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The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse phylum Mollusca, which includes a variety of familiar creatures well-known for...
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It is like a periwinkle except larger. They come in different shapes, sizes and colours. They are a mullusc and are actually...
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They eat most vegitation, including mushrooms. They may eat grass, and they sometimes eat clovers. In their tank, just make sure...
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lots of animals eat snails. song thrushes, mistle thrushes, redwings, ground beetles, hedgehogs, common shrew, parasitic...
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I believe garden snails do sleep. Not like I know it from experience, but I find that my garden snails often go into their shells...
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Snails move by alternating body contractions with stretching, with a proverbially low speed (1 mm/s is a typical speed for adult...
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Snails "breathe" through their skin and through an opening called the pneumostome visible on the right side of their bodies.
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